National intelligencer vol. 46 no. 6671

MORE MORMON TROUBLES.
We learn from a letter published in the St. Louis Republican that a serious disturbance has lately taken place in the upper part, of Adams county, Illinois, between a portion of the "old citizens" of that mid Hancock counties and the Mormons. The letter, which is dated at Quincy on the 14th instant, says:
"A gentleman belonging to this city returned from Lima, in the vicinity, of the outbreak, last evening, arid informs, us that on Thursday last the anti-Mormons attacked a settlement known by the name of 'Morley's Settlement,' a short distance northeast of Lima, in this county, and that up to the time he left twenty-five or thirty houses had been burnt, together with several barns and wheat stacks. The excitement was very great, and large numbers of anti-Mormons were pouring in from the adjoining counties and from Missouri, and they were still burning and destroying property, and were determined to drive the Mormons out of the county. Our informant saw about fifty Mormons under arms within about two miles from the settlement, who appeared determined to defend themselves. It was in contemplation by the anti-Mormons to attack two more settlements last evening."
In addition to what is stated in the above letter, the Repub-lican informs us that a gentleman who had visited the camp of the anti-Mormons, near Lima, estimated , them to be about three hundred strong. He was also at the camp of the Mor-mons, and found them to number about one hundred. After leaving the camps, he returned to Warsaw, where he remain-ed some time, and learned there that the Mormons had all moved into Nauvoo, and that the Mormon Sheriff had ordered out the legion to arrest those who had commenced these dis-orders. The Republican adds that, if this report be true, and the legion turns out, a conflict is inevitable. A letter received at St. Louis, from Warsaw, says that business was suspended on account of the difficulties with the Mormons, and that se-veral houses had been burnt and lives lost.
LATER.—The St. Louis Republican of the 17th instant says:
"Our accounts by the last boats are brought down to Sun-day night. The work of destruction was progressing, and extending itself with hourly increasing violence.The anti-Mormons, it is understood, have taken measures to secure a general concentration of forces from far and near, and they declare that they will not stop short of the expulsion of every Mormon from Hancock county—in which Nauvoo is situated. It is said that up to. Sunday night about sixty houses had been burned down in Adams and Hancock counties."

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MORE MORMON TROUBLES.
We learn from a letter published in the St. Louis Republican that a serious disturbance has lately taken place in the upper part, of Adams county, Illinois, between a portion of the "old citizens" of that mid Hancock counties and the Mormons. The letter, which is dated at Quincy on the 14th instant, says:
"A gentleman belonging to this city returned from Lima, in the vicinity, of the outbreak, last evening, arid informs, us that on Thursday last the anti-Mormons attacked a settlement known by the name of 'Morley's Settlement,' a short distance northeast of Lima, in this county, and that up to the time he left twenty-five or thirty houses had been burnt, together with several barns and wheat stacks. The excitement was very great, and large numbers of anti-Mormons were pouring in from the adjoining counties and from Missouri, and they were still burning and destroying property, and were determined to drive the Mormons out of the county. Our informant saw about fifty Mormons under arms within about two miles from the settlement, who appeared determined to defend themselves. It was in contemplation by the anti-Mormons to attack two more settlements last evening."
In addition to what is stated in the above letter, the Repub-lican informs us that a gentleman who had visited the camp of the anti-Mormons, near Lima, estimated , them to be about three hundred strong. He was also at the camp of the Mor-mons, and found them to number about one hundred. After leaving the camps, he returned to Warsaw, where he remain-ed some time, and learned there that the Mormons had all moved into Nauvoo, and that the Mormon Sheriff had ordered out the legion to arrest those who had commenced these dis-orders. The Republican adds that, if this report be true, and the legion turns out, a conflict is inevitable. A letter received at St. Louis, from Warsaw, says that business was suspended on account of the difficulties with the Mormons, and that se-veral houses had been burnt and lives lost.
LATER.—The St. Louis Republican of the 17th instant says:
"Our accounts by the last boats are brought down to Sun-day night. The work of destruction was progressing, and extending itself with hourly increasing violence.The anti-Mormons, it is understood, have taken measures to secure a general concentration of forces from far and near, and they declare that they will not stop short of the expulsion of every Mormon from Hancock county—in which Nauvoo is situated. It is said that up to. Sunday night about sixty houses had been burned down in Adams and Hancock counties."